When Larry Bird entered the NBA, he had plenty of doubters. He didn’t pass the eye test: he was slow, couldn’t jump, and was ghostly white. Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan figured it out quickly.
You may remember that in 2025, Charlotte tried to trade Mark Williams to the Los Angeles Lakers, but they canceled the trade after a physical uncovered some problems they had not been aware of.
The finer points of soccer, or football if you must, are lost on most Americans, present company included. Give us a Eurostep, please, or maybe a step-back three.
So the draft is over, and what does it mean for the many tentacles of the Brotherhood? Let’s look at it. Well, some of them, anyway. There’s a lot of sifting and sorting to be done yet.
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Defense wins championships, a motto that has been around the sport of football for many years and rings true in so many cases across all spectrums. College football is no different, as one of the top defenses helped Indiana to its first National Championship.
It would be nice to be talented enough to be drafted by an NBA team, and it would be cool to be in the building, and even cooler to be in the Green Room.
There are a lot of uncertainties still, but Maliq Brown was taken with the #44 pick by the San Antonio Spurs, and that could be a huge break. First, the Spurs have been a model franchise in most ways, and they have always had a knack for finding talent.
Before the NBA Draft, and after being taken by Memphis with the #3 pick, Cameron Boozer made it clear that he didn’t understand why he wasn’t seen by many as a likely #1 pick.
The Duke Blue Devils had one of the most explosive offenses in college football last season under offensive coordinator Jonathan Brewer, averaging 34.6 points per game in a unit that is expected to remain high-scoring this fall.
Duke football head coach Manny Diaz comes from a defensive-minded background. From his time at both Miami and Penn State, to now with the Blue Devils, Diaz has led elite defensive units and is looking to get Duke back to that status in 2026.
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One of the greatest endings of an NCAA championship game, and possibly the greatest, was the 2016 Villanova-UNC epic, which played out in Houston’s NRG Stadium.
Cameron Boozer was taken with the #3 pick by the Memphis Grizzlies in Monday night’s NBA Draft, after Washington took BYU’s AJ Dybantsa, and Utah chose Kansas’s Darryn Peterson second.
In one of the bigger changes in recent NCAA history, and that’s saying a lot, the cartel is set to adopt a new age policy: players will get five years of eligibility, starting when they are 19.
After news broke Monday that Dusty May took the Dallas Mavericks job, there was a certain amount of discussion about Duke’s Jon Scheyer. The Mavericks clearly took a run at Scheyer – several apparently, hoping to reunite him with Cooper Flagg – but he turned them down every time, and ultimately, they settled on May.
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The Duke Blue Devils will be one of the premier teams in college basketball next season. Head coach Jon Scheyer will enter the 2026-27 campaign with the best chance to win a national title since he took over in Durham.
Duke and Michigan have a longer history than a lot of people realize. The Blue Devils and Wolverines clashed in twice in the 1963-64 season, with Michigan winning at home, 83-67 on December 21.
After news broke that Dusty May was taking the Dallas Mavericks job, or at least after the shock wore off, the immediate question was: who’s next in Ann Arbor?
The NBA has begun sending out green room invitations for the 2026 draft. According to ESPN’s Jeremy Woo, the league has invited 14 draft prospects to attend the event so far, with additional invitations expected to be issued in the coming days.